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Updated: Could Colorado House and Senate flip in ’18? Yes, says Ballotpedia

Oct 12, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Here’s something I bet you haven’t heard anywhere else: The Colorado House and Senate each could flip next year. OK, maybe you’ve heard half that. The Republicans hold just a one-seat edge in the 35-member Senate, which will see 17 seats on the ballot next year. But the House? Democrats enjoy a nine-seat majority in…
Former lawmakers land county party positions at reorganization meetings

Feb 14, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Three former legislators won election to county party offices on Saturday as state Democrats and Republicans conduct their biennial reorganization meetings. Denver Democrats elected former state Rep. Mike Cerbo, D-Denver, to a two-year term as the county party’s chairman, Adams County Republicans tapped former state Rep. JoAnn Windholz, R-Commerce City, as vice chair, and El…
Democrats reject GOP efforts to curb abortion, including ‘reversal method’

Feb 10, 2017

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Peter Marcus

Democrats early Friday morning shot down a trio of bills pushed by abortion opponents following an 11-hour marathon hearing that saw an effort to reverse abortions. The bills that were rejected by the House Health, Insurance and Environment Committee on party-line votes included: House Bill 1086, sponsored by Reps. Justin Everett, R-Littleton, and Dan Nordberg, R-Colorado Springs, which…
Noonan: Final results show election angst on both sides turns into not much in Colorado

Dec 5, 2016

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Paula Noonan

In the grand total of many things political, Democrats did well in Colorado in 2016, going against the fly-over state trend. Even so, at the state level, the more things change, the more they stay the same. Statewide, unaffiliated voters broke toward Democrats at about 4.5 percent. With party registrations in November at almost even…
The Hot Sheet – Curing homelessness with pot, attacking Trump’s youngest, Skewes gets skewered, Colorado politics drinking game, U 2KINKY and MORE …

Nov 28, 2016

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Colorado Politics

VOL. 01 NO. 193 | NOVEMBER 28, 2016 | COLORADOSTATESMAN.COM/THE-HOT-SHEET | © 2016 DENVER – Suck in the holiday gut and belly up to your desk … It’s time to get back to work following (for many of us) a long Thanksgiving break. Oh, and happy ‘Cyber Monday’ to you, your favorite electronic device and…
Democrats celebrate Colorado as ‘pocket of sanity’ amid national election results

Nov 10, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Colorado Democrats celebrated sweeping wins across the state on Tuesday night at a hotel in downtown Denver, but the election-night watch party felt more like a wake as the national map on large-screen televisions slowly turned more and more red, depicting Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s win over Democrat Hillary Clinton. Clinton carried the state’s…
State legislative contests resolve into stalemate

Nov 9, 2016

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John Tomasic

Democrats add to House majority; Republicans retain Senate majority At the end of a long election season that delivered shocks at every stage, including a dramatic upset win for Donald Trump at the top of the Republican ticket, voters in Colorado shuffled some of the players at the state Capitol but didn’t change the game.…
Colorado GOP legislators get behind Trump

Oct 13, 2016

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Mike McKibbin

With many Republican leaders – including some in Colorado – recently withdrawing their support or renouncing GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump after the release of a 2005 video recording of Trump bragging of what some consider sexual abuse of women, the Trump campaign in Colorado on Thursday, Oct. 13, touted newfound support of several Colorado…
In race to win diverse swing Senate District 25, May, Priola relish long-march door-to-door

Aug 20, 2016

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John Tomasic

There’s really no other effective way to do it. People tune out TV and radio and mailers are quickly recycled. You have to go door to door, meeting the residents, chatting them up, listening to their concerns, doing what you can to win them over or at least make sure that, when they’re staring down…
#Coleg primary elections wrap up: Nail-biters, knockdowns, shakeups

Jun 29, 2016

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John Tomasic

A gray sky spit hail at last-minute Colorado voters, cars stacked bumper to bumper on Front Range roads, and primary elections ballots piled up at county clerks’s offices around the state, remaking in a preliminary way the shape of the Legislature to come. In the year of Donald Trump, state Republicans lost two hard-line headline-makers…